Steve Jobs was always described as an innovator, a
visionary; and rightly so.
Over the years, many people have looked up to Steve Jobs as
a source of inspiration.
Here are what we consider are the ten best
inspirational quotes by the man himself.
1. At an Apple product event for the first Macintosh
computer on January 24, 1984: "We're gambling on our vision, and we would
rather do that than make "me, too" products. Let some other companies
do that. For us, it's always the next dream."
2. In Playboy magazine in February 1985: "If you want
to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back
too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you
were and throw them away."
3. At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, May 1997:
"I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have
done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."
4. Talking about work at the Stanford University's
Commencement address on June 12, 2005: "Your work is going to fill a large
part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you
believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you
do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."
5. Talking about him being fired from Apple at the Stanford
University's Commencement Speech 2005: "I didn't see it then, but it
turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have
ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the
lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to
enter one of the most creative periods of my life.[...] It was awful tasting
medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the
head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
6. Steve Jobs gave an interview in "60 minutes" in
2003 in which he shared that his business model was inspired by The Beatles:
"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each
other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total
was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by
one person, they are done by a team of people."
7. In an interview to BusinessWeek in 1998: "That's
been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than
complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move
mountains."
8. In a statement to The New York Times, 2003: "[Design
is] not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
9. On being the richest man in an interview to The Wall
Street Journal in 1993 "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't
matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful...
that's what matters to me."
10. Talking about Death at the Stanford University
commencement speech, June 2005: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the
most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in
life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all
fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of
death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to
die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to
lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ...
Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
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